Film Commentary by Alex Good

Quiz the twenty-third: By the book (Part one)

Literature and film have long shared a love/hate, symbiotic relationship. Guess which films these books — not all of them “real” but not all of them fictional, if you know what I mean — are making cameos in.

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Pure guesses on most. But what the heck. How many opportunities a month do I have to look ridiculous? (How many quizzes ya got?) This is a good one, but they all are. Here goes nuthin’:
04) It’s Alive 3, Island of the Alive
05) Rushmore
07) Patton
09) Georgy Girl
10) Quills (?) (???????) (Like that’s going to make me right.)
11) The Brood
13) La note
17) Donnie Darko
18) The Third Man
22) Misery
24) House of Games

Kurtz is a very well-read army officer! He can even recite The Waste Land.

I love the Mad Magazine version of Apocalypse Now where he recites Longfellow’s “Song of Hiawatha” instead. Willard complains that he knows that poem and it goes on forever and Kurtz asks What’s the rush?

I remember that one! I still have my old Mad magazines stored away somewhere. I think I have the Space Idiocy one in a special issue that was a collection of the best of their movie parodies. Mort Drucker was one of the only comic book artists I could have named when I was growing up. I loved his stuff.